5. To be replaced by something else of the same kind: the rate at which the workforce turns over.

6. To transfer to another; deliver: turned over the suspect to federal agents.

7. To relinquish or surrender: turned over the management of the business to new owners.

8. Sports To lose possession of (the ball or puck).

9. To do business to the extent or amount of: turn over a million dollars a year.

10. To seem to lurch or heave convulsively: My stomach turned over.

turn to

To begin work: If you quit dawdling and just turn to, your chores will be done soon.

turn up

1. To increase the speed, volume, intensity, or flow of: Turn up the radio.

2.

a. To find: She turned up the missing keys under her briefcase.

b. To be found: The papers will turn up sooner or later.

3. To make an appearance; arrive: Many old friends turned up at the reunion.

4. To fold or be capable of folding up: turning up his cuffs; cuffs that will turn up.

5. To happen unexpectedly: Something turned up, so I couldn't go.

6. To be evident: a sculptor whose name turns up in the art circles.

Idioms:

at every turn

In every place; at every moment.

by turns

One after another; alternately: "From the ... testimony emerges a man by turns devious and honest, vulgar and gallant, scatterbrained and shrewd"(Life).

in turn

In the proper order or sequence.

out of turn

1. Not in the proper order or sequence.

2. At an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner: The student was reprimanded for speaking out of turn.

to a turn

To a precise degree; perfectly: The roast was done to a turn.

turn a blind eye

To refuse to see or recognize something: turned a blind eye to tax fraud.

turn a deaf ear

To refuse to listen to or hear something: turned a deaf ear to the protests.

turn a hair

To become afraid or upset: didn't turn a hair during the crisis.

turn (one's) back on

1. To deny; reject.

2. To abandon; forsake.

turn (one's) hand

To apply oneself, as to a task: turned her hand to writing the report.

turn (one's) head

1. To cause to become infatuated.

2. To cause to become egotistical and conceited: Success has turned his head.

turn over a new leaf

To start acting or thinking in a more positive or responsible way.

turn tail

To run away.

turn the/acorner

To reach and surpass a midpoint or milestone.

turn the other cheek

To respond to insult or injury by patiently eschewing retaliation.

turn the scales

To offset the balance of a situation.

turn the tables

To reverse a situation and gain the upper hand.

turn turtle

To capsize or turn upside-down: Our sailboat turned turtle during the squall.

turn up (one's) nose

To regard something with disdain or scorn: turned up her nose at the food.

[Middle English turnen, from Old English turnian, tyrnan and Old French torner, both from Latin tornāre, to turn in a lathe, from tornus, lathe, from Greek tornos; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: turn, circle, rotate, revolve, gyrate, spin, whirl, eddy, swirl These verbs mean to move a in circle. Turn and circle are the most general: The mechanic made sure the wheels turned properly. Seagulls circled above the ocean. Rotate refers to movement around an object's own axis or center: Earth rotates on its axis once each day. Revolve involves orbital movement: Earth revolves around the sun. Gyrate suggests revolving in or as if in a spiral course: The top gyrated on the counter and slowly came to a stop. To spin is to rotate rapidly, often within a narrow compass: "He ... spun round, flung up his arms, and fell on his back, shot through" (John Galsworthy).Whirl applies to rapid or forceful revolution or rotation: During the blizzard, snowflakes whirled down from the sky. Eddy denotes rapid circular movement like that of a whirlpool: Storm clouds eddied overhead. Swirl can connote a graceful undulation, spiral, or whorl: The leaves swirled in the wind.

On coming there, he would see on his left, Monsieur Stangerson; he would turn to the right, towards the 'off-turning' gallery--the way he had pre-arranged for flight, where, at the intersection of the two galleries, he would see at once, as I have explained, on his left, Frederic Larsan at the end of the 'off-turning' gallery, and in front, Daddy Jacques, at the end of the 'right' gallery.

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